I wore my Swiss Army wool coat today. It’s a long, double-breasted blue coat with gold-colored buttons and crossed rifles on the collar. Everybody at school thought it was a Confederate Army coat. Of course, this is Georgia. Nobody thought of that in Kansas City.

In the pocket, I discovered a little reminder of Kansas City: two ticket stubs (#129648 & 129649) for a showing of “Gatherings in Graveyards III,” put on by the Coterie Theatre on Friday, October 31, 2003. “Tales by Poe, Twain, and Jackson – Too intense for younger viewers!”

The two ticket stubs were still connected to each other. The flimsy perforated paper had somehow hung together tenaciously for over a year.

I miss the people I left behind in KC.

Thank you, Sunny, for a great time – and for great memories.

I put the stubs back in the coat pocket, to remind me again – another day, another time – of a happy period of my life.